From the Dungeons & Dragons game on Sunday: you must watch Grave of the Fireflies, and you must have My Neighbor Totoro ready to pop in and watch immediately after. I haven't yet watched the …
ANG seems to have trouble getting my columns up on the web site. At all. So, for example, the last 3 columns of July (the ones where I was away on a farm and didn't …
Turns out that my pal Hal just read the diabolical poetry/playwriting parody The Holy Tango of Literature, which includes some of my favorite Modern Humorist bits. I loved "I WILL ALARM ISLAMIC OWLS" when I …
While reading Leonard's retrospective of the future, I had reason to ask, "what's a catenary?" Leonard went into the bedroom and emerged, holding one end of a cell phone charger cord high in each hand, …
Sometime this week this article will go away into some archives, but for now: Sumana's farming lessons.
When I was growing up, a lazy person writing a presentation would start off telling you about a key word. He'd use the dictionary definition or etymology (or better yet, a made-up etymology that sounded …
In this week's MC Masala column, Leonard talks about making pesto, and I talk about the Indian tulsi plant. Leonard used the garden as a trick to get himself to exercise. His hours of plantings, …
At my request, Eric Fischer calculated the long tail of San Francisco street lengths as part of his effort to walk every block in SF. I threatened to set up flash mobs that would walk …
"Running an Education Jam in the Philippines" is only one of the subheadings on that blog post.
The taboo on attention-seeking (my column last week): I spent my adolescence learning how to turn down my showoff dial. Or trying to. Enthusiasm + intelligence = "brown-noser," right? And now, like so many women …
